skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>sadly this is what most news has come to

This is a blog post by one writer. It's not reflective of what "most news" is about any more than any random blog post is, i.e., not representative at all.

Google for Australia google news tax, and click news to see actual news sites, and not one in the first several pages (actually, I can find exactly zero) have a title like the one you complain is "what most news has come to".

Are to cite any real news (as in a major news publication) source as an example of your claimed bias? I can't find any.
On the other hand it has been proven that the earth is not flat thousands of years ago. The effort to do so is surprisingly limited. Basically you need to dig a hole in the ground and reason about the angles of the sun rays if I remember correctly.
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Well, Google can gig source news from tens of millions of googlers - sure it will need editing for duplicates, originality and time priority, but they could link ad $$ to the wages based on clicks - that's what they can do.
Since Murdoch is the premier Australian news paper publisher ~~80% or so???, he will collect that same % of the take, and I do mean take.
As I said, not just talking about US here...

In Sweden the green party is dangerously close to getting ejected from the parliament. They need +4% of the votes to stay. The issue for them have been that they had to make a lot of uncomfortable compromises to have any influence at all. Feels like that is the fate of any party that wants to have any kind of progressive agenda. Death by a thousand compromises.
Yes, there is sometimes an excessive pedantry that is used to attack an FOSS or some new project on Show HN or new thoughts. It's impossible to placate this small group, they decide what gets upvoted and what doesn't.

It is the same problem on Reddit too. Anybody can create multiple accounts or buy aged ones, use different proxies to downvote. On the server side, what can you really do to fight this?

Fingerprinting, IP address intelligence, account age, points, user activity that will be compared to the normal distribution of most legitimate user activity (I doubt this is used efficiently).

edit: Case example, within minutes of posting my parent comment, its downvoted to oblivion and they are probably going through all of my comment history to do the same. It's really churlish and parochial.
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If you use an rss reader, the easies solution how to track a file or a folder in GitHub is by just adding .atom at the end of the url when looking at the commits.

For example:
https://github.com/playframework/playframework/commits/maste...
becomes
https://github.com/playframework/playframework/commits/maste...

You can do that with every commit url in GitHub, be it for a folder or a file.
Just add it to your rss feed reader, done.
The hyperbole is not absurd and is there for a reason: it is meant to show people the arrogance of scientists and their inability to comprehend that messing with complex systems has unpredictable consequences that cannot be studied.
At least in the German speaking countries the word Gypsy ("Zigeuner" in German) is considered a racial slur similarly (if not quite as strongly) ill-considered in usage as N*gger is in English. There aren't a lot of Romani in the US, which I think is why Americans aren't aware this is a word you should avoid (but I'm pretty sure it is also considered a slur in English in Britain and Ireland).
No, the poster did not say “all” homeless people are alcoholics. He said that is “mainly”, meaning most, but certainly not all.

Just so we can all be as pedantic as humanly possible, here.
> Sure, cookies are used for tracking, but they are also used for authentication, which is something that nearly every webapp needs to do.

What if we could move authentication or more specifically the state held in the client for authentication to some other mechanism? Could we pitch cookies? Could we make this switch without making it somehow possible for advertisers to switch to the new mechanism?
The PyPy comparison, based on their current numbers [0], would be to estimate that PyPy is about twice as fast as Pyston, which itself is about twice as fast as CPython.

[0] https://speed.pypy.org/
I've made https://github.com/Keats/kickstart which is roughly the same thing (and improved some bits) without the need to install a python package.
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>Homelessness does not beget homelessness. It is most important to note that

But is this really a fact? I agree with your later reasoning that homelessness is a symptom of deeper problems, but I'd argue that our societies should have one more failsafe in place: housing for the homeless.

I've never been sleeping rough, but I'd think it would be pretty traumatic. This would kick some into seeking help, but would make others fail even more.
Most of my friends had 9-10 digit numbers, and I was 1337 for having 8 ;) I still remember both my numbers, but I’m not sure if I can remember the passwords, it was before I used password managers ;)
> In modern western society we have many failsafes

The US called, they want you to pay your hospital bills.

Or when it comes to SF, rent.
I'm also pleasantly surprised by this transpiler discovery.

4 years ago I was managing a Feed The Beast (A heavily modded and themed Java Minecraft version) server and in that mod packages was OpenComputers (https://ocdoc.cil.li/) which exposed a lua api and in game computers to the players. The OpenComputers Package Manager (https://github.com/MightyPirates/OpenComputers/blob/master-M...) became a limiting factor to my players as they wanted some ability to load from other sources so I converted the program to MoonScript (https://moonscript.org/) and maintained a fork with modifications for them.

MoonScript was certainly more pleasant to write and maintain (compared to Lua), but type safety would've definitely helped squash some of the weirder side effect driven bugs. That said, I still think MoonScript is a great middle ground for things that are written in Lua but need some extra organizational tools.
The CEO for a privacy-focused messaging app wanting to protect his privacy is suspicious...?
Not yet. The project is being built from scratch. So only a roadmap outlined and old build of the site online.

Thanks for feedback though.
Do people still recommend snafu?
My wife and I argue a lot about the mall in our town.

Our mall has had the same problems other malls have had, and it is "suburban", but it is within walking range of an airport, medical center, a lot of other shopping, medical offices, a huge assisted living facility and lots of townhouses. The bus runs two to four times an hour to the downtown and local college campus.

The crowd at the mall seems a lot more racially integrated than at the Ithaca commons downtown.

These days the mall has the COVID-19 testing center and just opened a racket sports center where Planet Fitness used to be. The people who run the mall definitely want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
No, that's an interesting question but he was specific about any public companies being remote before covid. I think you may have replied to the wrong comment.
Woop, there's the "socialism is a slippery slope to communism" argument.
I once came up with a system that worked pretty well for an array of mostly similar objects. I use a jsonpath like column names, so putting the values A and B in a column named "some.property.items[0]" results in

[
{"some": {"property": {"items":["A"]}}},
{"some": {"property": {"items":["B"]}}}
]

To avoid very long column names, values starting with "[" or "{" are parsed as json, so putting {"a": 1} in a column named C results in [{"C":{"a": 1}}]. Doesn't cover all edge cases, but worked well enough form my use case, which was providing a batch upload interface for a giant json (instead of a bunch of web forms) for excel savvy power users, allowing them to batch upload semi-structured data. I used jsonschema for validation on submit, worked well enough.
I don't think it's fair to single us out, though. This social problem, integration, is present in almost exactly the same way in Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia. To a lesser degree it's also present in Spain from what I know.

It's far from a simple problem. As the Finns are discovering.
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What is the target audience for things like this? Are there people who start projects constantly? Or is this more just a catalog?
In this case the framework means set of dependencies. If you want to parse short-opts, long-opts etc. you need dependencies in most languages. Python is an exception, because of batteries included approach.

With Rust you will soon see that most applications require some sort of dependency like serde for serialization, etc.
> how the internet forced governments to back off on censorship laws

Did they? Governments regularly censor stuff on the internet all over the world.
Site is down - apparently "hugged" to oblivion in about 20 min.

Here is the link on the Internet archive -
https://web.archive.org/web/20210125144524/https://bombthrow...
One of the films mentioned (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) is available to watch for free on archive.org. Probably not safe to watch at work.

https://archive.org/details/TetsuoTheIronMan
Just wait a few more years, gas stations will start being phased out, rooftop solar will be even cheaper, and the economical side of your worry will be eviscerated. The learning curve solar and batteries are on means their relentless March of improvement will render gas scarce and expensive by comparison. Gas will still play a role for older cars and antiques, but it'll be harder and harder to find over time.
I don't want a car with an Internet connection.
Hi @thesz!

The experiment you are referring to is done in main memory with an optimised in-memory B+tree implementation. We didn't plot the performance for larger page sizes because in our machine they performed poorly, as you can already see from the configuration with 1024-byte pages. So we're not favouring our approach at all.

Note also that next-gen memories have smaller and smaller access granularities. For example, the Intel's Optane DC Persistent Memory accesses blocks of 256 bytes, while the Intel's Optane DC SSD accesses blocks of 4 KB. I guess that data structures with blocks of 16K-256K are disproportionate in these cases.

About LSM-trees, nothing prevents you to use a PGM-index (which you can construct during the compaction of levels, thus without scanning data twice) to speed up the search on a long immutable level. Or also, to use a PGM-index on data which is organised into RLE-compressed disk pages ;)
Sure, fine. It's still a hateful, unevidenced comment about homeless people that can't be justified.
Note that, these kind of people are very rare. I can assure everyone gets all the help they can get. But these kind of extreme cases, usually have no drive to live their life other way, and you can do little to change them. There is very little homeless in Finland in reality, and it's one of the first things that always rubs me wrong overseas when I see homeless on the street. Seeing homeless on the street in Finland is not _normal_.
thank you! I really like this approach and didn't knew it was working well.
> Perhaps the Government really did come around to the importance of journalism — including that which is critical of the Government — to Australian society?

> There’s one big problem with that hypothesis. If that was the case, then surely the Government would have ensured that funding for media companies would have included the most trusted news brand in Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Company?

> And yet, they excluded it.

This is the first of many articles on this subject I've seen on HN that has mentioned this detail.
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By sane people, they already have been. I have no need or desire to "engage with" the idea the Holocaust is a good way to control population (not a hypothetical, that's on the front page as I visited).

That's not rational debate, "marketplace of ideas", or whatever you want to call it. It's screeching until everyone else realises there's nothing to gain from being there, and leaves.
It's pretty much the same in the Netherlands, given enough issues and after failing to get you back to work you basically land in a situation where the state pays for your existence though direct money and a lot of subsidies (ie when the stress of work cause a relapse in your drinking habits and it happened time and time again over the past 10 years).

It is thus very difficult to understand why there are homeless people. But I once went (with work) on a trip with a homeless person (this is a charity, you pay and homeless people take you one trip and talk about their lives). And indeed the people on the streets always have psychological issues. Extreme ADHD, abused as a child, depression but just a little bit to afraid to die to really end it. If they want help it is there, always. Homeless shelters, places to get a postal address for free to apply for subsidies and minimal social income etc. But some just go crazy while waiting or go crazy while sleeping with other people in one room. Or they walk barefoot in the winter until their feet are so rotten that they can't walk anymore, too afraid to get help because they believe help means they will be abused again or mind altered or something strange. Most of them are constantly afraid and not a danger to others, more like very shy animals afraid of other humans, so they retreat and suffer while their fear of death keeps them alive, just barely.

One woman we spoke to had her child murder her other child and she just started drinking. How can you help such a woman? So much pain.
You're already coming across as very judgmental of these people. Have you actually talked to them? Do you know why they prefer their lifestyle? I mean you just implied that mental health is a lifestyle or addiction (??? maybe check your phrasing), and that drug addiction is a lifestyle choice instead of e.g. a coping mechanism because society failed them.
I doubt Comac airplanes will be allowed to land in any european or american airports.
Here ya go [0] https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/220951/Mort...

Check out page 845 showing death by alcohol poisoning is 5x higher in the homeless population of Finland than the whole of the country.

FWIW, and anecdotally, my ancestry is Finnish and we are known for having issues with alcohol. The majority of my extended family has drinking issues. Within our Finnish-American community, it’s believed that Finns have some sort of gene that pre-disposes us to drink to excess.
Flagging is entirely broken on Hacker News, which is a problem I've pointed out to the moderators before. It's basically a super-downvote and allows people to censor opinions that they don't like. Comparing with downvotes:

- Flags work on comments and posts, but you can only downvote comments.

- Flags work on replies to your comments; downvotes don't.

- A few flags will remove a comment entirely, downvotes can only make it grey.

- A few flags will remove a post entirely, and even with showdead enabled you have to see it in /new or at the last page of /hot, then choose to vouch for it to rescue it. This almost never happens. A flagged post is basically a death sentence for that post.

- You get flags at 31 karma, but can't downvote until 501.

So the answer is that flags are utterly broken and vulnerable to abuse, and /new is where it shows most strongly. Tons of posts are killed there. Controversial topics almost cannot be discussed on HN because it only takes a few people to vanish the post for good.
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Then we should expect better of him than "no it isn't, wait... yes it is" that we get constantly. The most recent was his response to the idea the UK variant is more deadly.
€30/hr would be what self-employed entrepreneur would charge from the clients (versus employee in cleaning company earns somewhere in the €10/h range.)
Ask HN: What courses would you like to see in Udemy?
I've been thinking about creating a course around software programming. What gaps do you think need to be filled?
Yes, why wouldn't they?
Why does coal have such staying power in Poland? I've heard all about their coal reliance, is it political powers and mining powers who keep it that way? How is air quality and asthma in the country?
what happens when most services of interest promptly block @relay.firefox.com addresses?
Pyston was the subject of a recent Podcast.__init__ podcast

https://www.pythonpodcast.com/pyston-fast-python-interpreter...
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I agree. We need to start instituting temperature checks at all businesses and mandatory mobile phone contact tracing. This would help reduce crime as well.
FYI this was already quietly shoved into Chrome 80
I understand the appeal of type safety, but will we ever see the end of this trend of overstating its value?

At what point is the value of type safety offset by the complexity of transpiling scripting languages? TS is a superset of JS, so that is at least a pretty simple conversion... but TS to Lua?
The average autocracy is deeply inefficient at anything but serving the autocrats every need.

China is an extreme outlier in that respect. What they've done the last 40 years is unparallelled and very hard to explain.
If camera don't function in snow, then Waymo is in a worst position because they rely on Lidar -- which simply cannot work in snow, at all.
Thanks, but I didn't ask for evidence that "alcohol poisoning is 5x higher in the homeless population", I asked for evidence that "people are mainly homeless in Finland because they would prefer to get drunk."
I'm fully aware - there's even a TSLAQ at the bottom of the page which is ironic given the recent stock surge. Nevertheless, it looks like it's the only source that tries to count deaths involving autopilot, so you can take their number then go through the articles to make a more informed conclusion.
Simpler doesn't mean cheaper. Also simpler doesn't preclude AI either
I don't like how the website just presents an extreme point of view without a clear option to engage in a discussion across sides (to ask about reasons, etc).

I think instead of giving people a chance to get heard we should give people a chance to participate in a respectful dialogue with others who think differently.
I used to use an extension for Chrome that had a two-column layout as you describe and I rather liked it. However, I switched to back Firefox some years ago and I've never found a similar extension to replace it.
Andrew,

Thanks for taking a look and yeah I agree with a lot of your points.

I was just trying to start a different type of conversation online. I find myself searching for "what the other side thinks" alot these days. Maybe this could help bridge the gap a bit.

As any forum there will be a need for moderation and at the moment this is only a passion project. So I'll do my best I can for now.

I went ahead and took that post down. Not sure if I'll be able to control everything but like I said I'll do the best that I can.
100% this. That's what I mean - I bet their team is just slammed with all that growth and pressure on their systems.
There have been studies that claim to show most American consumers can’t tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. This is baffling to me. In my soda drinking days, I was fine with both, but the difference is pretty clear to me (and I have single blind tested it a few times.)

Could there be a significant cohort of people who are unaware they have a diminished sense of taste due to age or other factors?
As long as you're not doing any complex argument handling, it's dead simple:

https://github.com/ablakey/gameboy/blob/master/src/main.rs#L...

(I'm sure people will shout that this isn't the right way to parse optional flags)
And your point is...?

I mean I guess culling the population to make the price of housing drop is one solution, but it's a bit strong don't you think?
Update a couple days after this posted, restored over the weekend.

https://twitter.com/LincolnCannon/status/1353483168792240128...
You're not considering the local nature of the emissions and diesel's dirtier effect on organisms. How much closer are the cars to the populace, relative to the power plant?
I guess we are just going to see more cases of overlapping branding for FOSS unless they have the money to register a trademark tbh.

I started to distinguish projects via their github handle, it is the only way to avoid confusion.
While useful as a list of handy libraries, I don't think you need to concern yourself with using such a framework if you want to build a CLI app in Rust. If your intended CLI interface isn't extremely simple, then pick a handy argument parser like clap or structopt (which is built on top of clap). From there add these other libraries only if you feel the need.
FWIW, I have been running Linux as my desktop since 1999, and on a laptop since the mid-2000s. It is doable, and I no longer have the problems which used to be common. Once upon a time Ethernet, WiFi & graphics were screwy, but not for a long time now.
Just like they do with 10minutemail addresses and such.

This service is dead on the water.
The specs don't say hw3 isn't enough.
> I find it strange that this article defines relaxing zoning codes as "progressive." I suppose that the author is writing for an audience that equates "progressive" and "good" but in any other context supporting strict regulation that restricts property rights isn't really "conservative."

This is quite amusing to watch. This kind of deregulation is now sold on the hand-wavey idea that it solves housing affordability (with incredibly limited evidence), and the unspoken premise is that government is too incompetent and the invisible hand of the free market is uniquely qualified to solve the problem.

"Rent control doesn't fully solve the problem, so just let the market solve it instead!" is about as libertarian a position as one could possibly espouse, yet it's got a shiny coat of paint as the "YIMBY" movement. Now, if you push back with a suggestion that some combination of government initiated interventions might be more effective than just letting capital do whatever the hell it wants, you're just a conservative NIMBY who wants to keep the poors away out of their own self interest.
Very cool. Nice job!
Well, there are fewer homeless in Finnish cities than in many other European big cities. Note that there are only 5 cities in Finland that are big enough for homeless people. I don't think homeless people live in small towns anywhere in Europe.

On the other hand a Finnish newspaper wrote just yesterday[1] that the amount of street children (teenagers mostly) is increasing all the time and nobody really cares. The phenomenon goes mostly unreported, because according to the law it's impossible to happen. Authorities would be obliged to take care, in reality they are incapable. Mostly understaffed and to some degree also incompetent.

[1] Don't remember which one, read 3 of them.
That's what i liked about it, it says on the page that: "Greenhouse gas emissions account for the entire lifecycle, including vehicle production and battery production, supply chains raw materials."
I (the author of SNAFU) absolutely recommend it!

It works well for libraries and applications and has bells and whistles you might want, such as backtrace captures on stable Rust.
Well, that’s all you’re going to get out of me. I gave you a 30 second google search. Have a great day!
True, this is widespread and not unique to Romania.
http://archive.is/rdWpg

Essentially, people are building sheds for offices. This discourages them from wanting to work in an office and that will destroy all the business models catering to office workers.